Bill left school at 14, as many of his generation did and worked in a variety of jobs, servicing radio, television and, in his long-held job with Biggars Music in Glasgow, electronic keyboard instruments and church organs. The six years of WW2 were spent as a radio engineer in Bomber Command with the Royal Air Force, a period of his life he didn't choose to talk about very much.
In the early 1950s he was a member of Edward Scoullar's writers' group The Wolves of Buchanan Street. He had some success writing short fiction but gave up writing for a number of years to concentrate on bringing up his family. He began writing poetry in 1983, after what he used to describe as the longest writer's block in literary history. His work featured often in anthologies and magazines as well as in his own self-published books. He work was also regularly broadcast on radio Scotland and Radio Clyde.
Shortly before he died, Grandpa made a request, of me, that I somehow "explain him to the world". This hopefully goes some way to doing that.
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